Thursday, January 31, 2019
NEW YORK
An exhibit on Jackie Robinson opens at the Museum of the City of New York today, the centennial of the birth of the man who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier.
Robinson first played for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. He died at age 53 in 1972.
The exhibit features memorabilia and 32 photographs originally shot for Look magazine, plus footage of Robinson hitting grounders to his son in the backyard of the family house in Stamford, Connecticut.